Morning journal and courier., 1887-08-12

and friends. From Peoria had also come
 l delegation of the Red Men and the Ancien
 Order of United Workmen, members of botl
 societies being on the ill-fated train.
 No sooner had the wreck occurred than
 scene of robbery began. Some band of nis
 creants began plundering the dead from thi
 terrible accident, taking even the shoei
 which covered their feet. Who these wretch es are is not now known. Whether they 1 were a band of pickpockets who accom- | panied the train or some robber gang who were lurking in the vicinity cannot be said there are many who give it credit, that the | accident was deliberately planned case o1 train wrecking. That the bridge was set or ! fire by miscreants who hoped to seize the op- portunity afforded, and the fact that the bridge was so far consumed at the time the train came along, and the added fact that the train was an hour and half late, are pointed out as evidence of careful conspir- acy. These fends in human form went into the cars when the fire was burning fercely underneath and when the poor wretches who were pinned there begged them ''for Gods sake to help them ou5" and stripped them of their watches and jewelry and searched
 their pockets for money. When the dead
 bodies were laid out in the corn fields these
 hyenas turned them over in Etheir search for
 valuables, and that the plundering was done
 by an organized gang was proved by the fact
 that this morning out in the corn fields six
 teen purses all empty were found in one heap.
 It was ghastly plundering and had the
 plunderers been caught this afternoon they
 would surely have been lynched.
 Following is list of the wounded as iden- tifed
 E. " Parker and wife, Peoria, wounded in head and limbs; Mrs Emma Rogan and son. Peoria. and feet inared Florence Bou6neS gayard t .Tau Ta s9Ph surnt paane Ra BFad Fsofa aan ead M hed h
 Young West Jersey, hand; C. w swank, TI9fulen. iI:, ankle; Thomas fTimms, Park Ridge
 haad ILL arms rms hips and legs; Theodore Gede Peoria
 leg Joe Nea IossE m 6ea and limbs; limbs; Mrs Joe Neal, Mossville, arm and leg ankle; Dr. E. P Hazen and wife, Fort Madison, la, la, head and limbs; Mrs. H. c. thompson, Risk, IHwa' low internally H H, Bond, colehester' K6car Euret m b96 aeAsS sgs gone; David Crawford, Hilton, m, head limbs and MRs Fones Fa m loot leg wm and r6Pbss Ras Elmwood, nl, chest and head; Elizabeth Settlers jiaw and leg H. Abraham, Peoria, internally; Vii
 liam Smith, Peoria, head crushed; Frank Taylor, H. leg. J. W stearns Green % valley, alley isns m, ieg Adam Hstr Hsttr1mberger. Peoria hip, side and heel; bssTs ana M M Flank gaadeissr. dsiisz ternally; Mary Worries, Peoria. bruised; Robert Zimmern, Peoria, head spine; E. F. French Peoria, R1 S.fs 3G f eggs es T Rs.S tea s h ii had leg asS 5refsn DanisI Rock, e Ross- vile, Ia, leg Q: 4. Gregg Dan7iile, Ia, leg Mrs 2: E Allen. GaIesburg, TIl., head; ". P: Ellis. tor Gs+ stillTslIi head: am and leg; .: + Burlington, Ia, body; John McMaster, Peoria, Ii, Rt RR0dy Frank Browp Psoris @ head pEs ,Relogg Mrs fsasc e%Sda s m body Hes fe0rA O0dy Peoria Miss Stephens 'a and fater mbe H Rseen BnghaHPR5on N Y 1 Wiiam Ndan cEag Cuba H. M MLG smth o1 H. aeo snh Peoria; Mrs. zen1merman, Peoria; Rose and Mag gs hqpby PgaEa and @ 0Sr PeSF m III Magic M Garrithers, G Evans, III; Jesse Meek, Eureka, H.; M r P stoodard ard West , Point, Ia; Mrs Pearl Adams ter, Bushee. g9P f Mrs. teo5.@ J M Clay. E Eure u0e ka. III; J: b. Richards. and Mrs. Breese. VI H. adds Mebse 5ssf Mrs Mrs William i Allen, Peoria, " Vallejo, Peoria; @ aRa Mght PaIe Pe1ra & Mrs William Bsll d and daughter, aug and Dr. William Collins, aaiesburg; J Body. J. s, kaler, Breeds Station, H., John Murphy Peoria, Green Valley, fiji; John A. Moore, Jacksonville; J D. hcFadden. Peoria; Captain Ohlke, A Martin,
 
 1t Piper City
 Engineer McCIintock's Horrible Death
 FOREST, H., Aug. HE. A. Van Zsndt of Peoria, who was on the wrecked train, says: 1T was in the rear sleeper and was in no Hanger, as no one in the six sleepers was more han shaken up. But even there we got pad shake. felt three distinct bumps and ,ushed out of the car and ran forward to the wreck There the scene was horrible, horri- ole. The only light was the flame of the burning bridge and above it the day coaches were piled up on top of one another in a mass. The engine was buried n the ditch and the headIess body of the en- ,ineer, Eugene McClintock, was underneath. There was an incident in the affair which was lot only remarkable in it's way, but shows LOW terribly those six coaches were jammed md mashed together. When the accident occurred Andy Mooney, of Peoria, and Con- luctor Hillwell, who were in charge of the rain, were three cars from each other. Mooney was in the second car and Hillwell n the fifth. The next instant they found | themselves literally in each others arms, the ! ar in which the conductor was riding hay ng been carried over the top in front and
 
 vas in. The strange part af it was that nei- ! her man was hurt. The most horrible death of il was that of Eugene McC1entock, engineer # the second engine of the double header. lis engine plunged down into the black lole and as the tender mounted on top of he cab it took McClentock in the back of he neck and cut his head clean off his hoolders. The trunk was found under the ngine, but the head could not be found and he presumption is that it was ground up in ! he horrid millstones of the engine and the ender."
 Terrible Sights Among the Dead.
 CHATswoRTH, Iil., Aug. 11.-As the day passed bodies were being continually brought n from the scene of the wreck. The majority if them were mangled in the most frightful manner, many of them having their faces en- irely torn away, leaving their brains exposed, while their jaws, fingers and legs had been orn off. The mouths of many of the dead were covered with foam, showing that they lied in great agony. The scsne in the ! ars was beyond description. One young hiId was found fastened near the roof of the ar head down, where in the jar and coneus- ion it had been thrown and was dead when aken down. Others were found in all con- eivable shapes all thrown out of their seats, oiled in the ends or aisles of the cars and bleeding from gashes in the face, arms or ,ther portions of the body. E
 A Horrible Incident of the Wreck.
 CHICAGO, Aug. 11.-A Chicago Times For st, H., special says: There was one incident # the accident which stood out more horri- ,ly than all of those horrible scenes. In the econd coach was man, his wife and little hild His name could not be learned to-day ,ut it is said he got on at Peoria. When the l ccident occurred the entire family of three ! vas caught and held down by the broken wood work. Finally when relief came the nan turned to the friendly aid and feebly l aid: ''Take out my wife first. I'm afraid he child is dead" So they carried out the l mother and as a broken seat was taken off l Ter crusoed breast the blood which welled l